Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1939 — Page 11
‘Hoosie r Vagabond hy By Ernie Pyle
BLUFF, Utah, Aug. 1.—Out in the desert, where vast space puts a frame around every little thing, you find that actions, too, are somehow magnified. Incidents that are small elsewhere become big incidents out here. They come back to you again and . :again, and you laugh to yourself if they're funny, or sit and think about them if they're meaningful and poignant. : Here in this greatly-old village of Bluff we sat on the conrete doorstep to the one-roomed store. "A couple of local men ere slowly telling us about hings. “Is this town all Mormon?” I
ked. ss : “Yes, all Mormon,” said one f the men, as he squatted and rew a line in the sand with a rock. “That is, they're all Mormons but me. I've been here so ne I don’t know whether I'm Mormon, Gentile or Jew.” Maybe that wouldn't be funny in New York, but it’s funny in Bluff. : Once Bluff was alive. There were cattle here, and people were rich. But that was long ago. ‘Bluff is dead, and well it knows it. The immense square stone houses, reeking of past wealth, stand now like ghosts, only one or two to a block. All else is vacant. -.. Sand is deep in the streets. The sun beats down. People move slowly, for there is no competition. Nobody new ever comes to Bluff. The mail comes in three times a week, by truck.
That Word ‘Dugway’
There is a word on the highway signs that is peculiar tb this part of the country. It is the word “Dugway.” When you come to the edge of a mesa, and have to descend several hundred feet into the valley or canyon that lies down below, they build a narrow Winding road down any convenient -gully they can
Our Town
An open letter to the Indianapolis Water Company: > Gentlemen: By the time you get this, goodness knows, maybe all will be over between us. Maybe, somebody else will be bilng me for my water. I hope it grjeves you as much as it does " me.” It has not been all onesided, has it—our long association and everything? Those long lovely years during which I never once thought anything could pry us apart. : Not that they were, of course, without their littie troubles. "I think of them now as love tiffs. In the beginning, I'll confess you hurt me not a little because you insisted on addressing me as «M.” Scherrer. And how all these years you ignored my protests! It is only now in this moment of parting, that I realize that you meant it all along as a pet name—that it was really a mark of affection. I am not hurt any more. Only I do wish you would tell me, now that the end has come, what in heck * that “M.” stood for. Was it Magnus, Malachi, Manuel, ' Mark, Martin, Matthew, Maurice, Max, Mike or maybe even Moses?
” That Unpaid Bill Now that I look back, nothing has really come between us—not even that little matter of the unpaid bill. Remember? It was back in 1927. I was restless that year and decided to go to Europe, and so I asked you to turn off the water. When I got back after a year or so, I asked you to turn the water on again. You welcomed me back with open arms. A fellow doesn’t forget such things. Nor will I ever forget what followed. For two whoie years after that I never paid a cent for water. For the simple reason that you never sent me a bill. To be sure, I might have ‘inquired about your forgetfulness, but I figured that if you wanted to be whimsical, so could I. I guess I wouldn't be paying for water today, except for the fact that in 1929 I got restless again.
Washington
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The Hatch Bill outlawing “pernicious political activities,” as its printed title ex-
presses it, has a neat surprise package in it which
practically everybody overlcoked while it was being passed. : Its opening sentence states that it shall be unlawful for “any person” to intimidate, threaten or coerce any other person for the purpose of influencing that person’s vote in a Presidential or Congressional election. Because of its phraseology, this—according to Senator Hatch, its : author—applies not only to politicians, but also. to employers of labor. It means that any employer who threatens his workers with a shutdown if SS i so-and-so isn’t elected is liable to a $1000 fine or a year’s imprisonment. Nobody paid the least attention to this while the bill was pending, although Senator Hatch says he tried his best to point out that this paragraph was in-
tended to apply to employers as well as to politicians.
«I just couldn’t get anybody to listen to me,” he says. “Two Senators got the point, and two correspondents—counting you—have asked me about it. And some bond house in New York City wrote and asked me if that was what the bill meant. I=mwrote and told them it was, and they replied saying that they were all for it.” : 2 2 =
Organizing Techniques
Odd sidelight on the contrasting ways of labor —eommunity a lot of service. ’
organizers, as revealed in the records of the Wage-and-Hour Division covering the appearance of Clar-
My Day
HYDE PARK, Monday—I read an article last night in the Atlantic Monthly: “The Next War,” by Graham Hutton. It is a rather interesting analysis of the European situation, drawing attention to the fact that in some ways we are duplicating our bey havior of before the 1914 cataclysm. The point which struck me particularly was the fact that we did nothing in 1914 to get at the root of the difficulties between the various nations. Nobody attempted to find any remedies which would allay the causes of friction, and it seems to the author, as it doés to me, that this is exactly what is happening today.
What is the sense of spending all this money for more and -. more armaments? Yes, I know we have to do it so long: as the nations are doing it. But, where does it lead? Nowhere but to war, because, while it seems the only possible thing to do as Ja temporary measure to prevent the outbreak of war immediately, no one goes beyond the immediate necessity and talks about the final elimination of the "difficulties which have thrust the various powers into their present situation. Why can’t we get around a table and face the fact that Germany and Italy have started this whole rformance because it was the only way in which their people could exist? It hasn't been a very good existence and I don’t imagine the German and Italian
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‘They did it down through the canyon wall. Hence the term “Dugway.” It is not used anywhere else in America that I-know of. ; : The first day out in this desert country we drove too long with our top down. Result—bad sunburn. I can take it when my arms-catch fire and even when the itching sets in. I can take it when my nose turns red, and the freckles come out, and even when the water blisters start and my forehead gets scurvylike from the ragged peeling. But when a man, three days after a sunburn, can reach up and peel big patches of skin right square off the top of his head, then the time has at last
come to admit he’s plumb baldheaded, and I find it
exceedingly hard on my Romeo complex. 88; = :
The Town of Blanding
Blanding, 27 miles to the north of us, is the jump-
‘ing off place into the vast unwashed desert land of
this Navajo country. When you leave Blanding, com-
ing south, you've left the last group of buildings that
can call itself a town and keep its face straight.’ Blanding is a farm community. It is Mormon, staid and conservative. There is a CCC camp eat Blanding, populated by boys from New York and New Jersey. ; The boys find Blanding a bitter pill. Beer is not sold in Blanding. And the boys said there was even a highway sign; just out of town, warning visitors that smoking wasn’t allowed in town. But we didn’t see any such sign. So in a store in Blanding I asked the proprietor about it. He stopped unpacking a box of merchandise and stood up. .“I know just who told you that,” he said. “It was a 1illing station in Monticello. They've got it in for us. «Of course there isn’t any such sign. People smoke here. I sell cigarets. Were no better and no worse than other people. We just try to make a living and live decently and have a good time. Just like anybody else.” Small towns are just like small people. They enjoy running each other down.
By Anton Scherrer
Enough, anyway, that the water had to be turned off again. It scared me half to death because, somehow, I got the idea that this time the water couldn’t be turned off without your finding the unpaid bill. To keep a step ahead of you, I sent you a letter explaining my side of it and ventured a hope that, maybe now, your books would balance.
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A Rival to Diogenes
Your reply is the only document I have apprising the world that in my day I was an honest man. Indeed, you went even further and proclaimed me the “most honest man in Indianapolis.” You didn’t mean that, of course. You were just carried away by your feelings. ; And then there was the time you slipped a meter into the house without my knowing it. As near as I recall that was back in 1930. Up to that time, you and I were courting on a flat rate basis. Well, one morning a meter reader showed up and asked: to see the meter. I told him we didn’t have any and he went away, apparently satisfied. The next month he came again and this time, I remember, I took him through the whole cellar to convince him. The third month the meter reader showed up again with a gentleman who looked as if he meant business. He said he had come to show his man where the meter was and right before my eyes he led him to a remote part of the basement, and there in a place dark and out of the way was a meter. To this day, I don’t know how you people slipped it in without anybody around the house knowing it. Why, it was just like the work of leprechauns or fairies or something supernatural. At any rate, I wonder whether the new company I'm going to be hitched up with will have a sense of humor like that. Somehow, I fear not. Indeed, now that I think of our long friendship—I trust you feel the same about it—I've got a kind of feeling that from now on most
of the fun in the world will be around Philadelphia, }
or wherever it is that you are going. Gosh, I wish we didn’t have to part. ; 1 Lovingly yours, “M.” SCHERRER.
By Bruce Catton
ence R. Miller, Texas mill owner, before the Textile Industry Committee at Atlanta early in July: : “Q—Has there been any attempt to organize your employees by union representatives? “A—Yes. They have tried in about four instances. “The C. I. O. tried to do it three times, and they came without notice disguised as workmen and asked for positions in the mills, but they couldn't get any signers. The A. FP. of L. organizer came to my office and introduced himself to me and asked if I would co-operate with them in organizing the. company.” Mr. Miller added that he told this latter gent that it was no dice and that this organizing attempt got no farther than the others had.
” = 8 Cities Do Mediating The movement to settle industrial disputes through mediation rather than through strikes seems to be
growing, and a fair number of cities have set up local |
boards of conciliation and mediation. Latest tabulation at the Department of Labor shows that during the last year such boards have been in existence in Seattle, Minneapolis, Sioux Falls, Milwaukee, Toledo, Philadelphai, Sheboygan, Newark and Ventura, Cal. Most «famous of these, of course, is the Toledo Industrial Peace Board; which—operating throughout on a purely voluntary basis—was at the first of this year credited with having handled 212 disputes involving 35,000 employees. Included were the settling of 37 strikes and the averting of 36. In some cities, according to officials of the Labor Department’s Conciliation Service, such boards are short-lived, coming into existence solely at the .instance of the mayor and dying when he leaves office or loses interest. In others, however, they have made a definite place for themselves and have rendered the
(Raymond Clapper Is on Vacation)
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
people look forward to war any more than we do. But p
desperation is desperation wherever you find it and this course begun by Germany and Italy has driven the other nations into courses which we all are now pursuing. : We invited the nations to sit around a table last spring. But, though I feel very sure that among the people of the world there is a desire for action of this kind, some of the leaders invited to come together
<were hot prepared to do so and refused.
It is wearisome to read of the balance of power. I would like to see somebody write about a balance of trade and of food for the world and the possibilities of so organizing our joint economic systems that all of us could go to work and produce at maximum capacity. This would mean much to the next generation in every country. I cannot help feeling that the best minds of every nation should be working out a way to find some of these solutions, even though temporarily their attitude may have to be: *“Gentlemen if you move to war, we move, too, with all the power we have.” zs It may be somewhat impertinent for a mere, unimportant citizen, and a woman at that, to have the presumption to suggest that we are not moving forward toward the fundamental solutions at the present time. But, after all, if war comes, it is the individual _citizen—man, woman and child—who carries the war through and pays for it, so. we might as well begin to.think about it before it is on our backs. Let's do a little more than think. Let’s ask our leaders not to weaken their stand against war, but hl tell- us what more could be done for permanent
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to maturity and then released heated trucks. : 3. Workers take the chicks out
By Joe Collier
Times Staff Writer
WELLS COUNTY GAME
The idea was to have the state forests and woods teeming with them for hunting purposes. But in practically no time at all the Department checked up and found them
all present and accounted
for. Each one had joined a convenient barnyard and made a present of himself to the farmer. They appeared to want no part of the rugged life of the wood: fowl, and quickly became selfdomesticated. ! 8 8 8
following year the Department liberated 155 of them, hoping that the first group had simply gone unaccountably: haywire. But they, too, picked 'out the closest farm and spent their lives accepting handouts instead of foraging for their food as their ancestors did. . ; The one wild turkey that was turned loose in"1937, and the 25 freed last year, all did the same thing and the Department has temporarily given up on them. No more “wild turkeys will be reared under the auspices of the State Government” until, when and if the Department determines how to develop the proper attitude. Quail and pheasants reared un‘der State auspices turn out to be no such-sissies. When they are liberated they are long gone and only a part of them are bagged by hunters each fall. . Matter of fact, the liberation of quail and pheasants is becoming a big-business pastime for the hundreds of conservation clubs in the state which are sponsored by the Department.
_.2. Other chicks are dis ributed
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* 1. Electrically heated brooder houses Where quail chicks are reared
to Conservation Clubs in specially: of hatching baskets when they are
less than a day old, put them in boxes for shipment,
PRESERVE, Aug. 1.—When
the Indiana State Conservation Department thinks of wild turkeys, which it tries not t6 do, it becomes melancholy and broods a good deal. ; . . Wild turkeys have been a keen disappointment, a considerable puzzle and the general all-round problem fowl of the department. They won’t stay wild. : In 1935 the Department hatched out, brooded and liberated at the proper age a total of 148 of these birds.
HIS year, for instance, the clubs and the department plan to liberate more pheasants and quail than ever have been liberated in any other state through similar agencies in any given two years. One each of several farms like the Wells County Preserve, there are long rows of wooden quail houses that look a good deal like miniature suburbs of bungalows on the edge of some city. In each house is a pair of quail. As the mama quail lays her eggs, workers collect them and put them in electrical incubators, They are hatched mechanically, and the baby quail either are put in electrically heated brooder houses or sent as day-old chicks to conser‘vation clubs to be raised in their brooder houses. Last year 155 clubs had built these houses according to Department specifications at a cost of about $100 each. This year there are 480 in operation.
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QUAIL chick. is very perky indeed when it is first hatched; and when less than 12 hours old it can run so fast and deceptively through the grass that it can elude anyone who might chase it. | > They are hardy and sometimes when they are being transferred by workers from hatching baskets to shipping boxes they run up an arm, drop maybe four feet onto a cement floor. But, like as not, they show no permanent ill effects from the adventure, " In the baskets, they climb spryly over the egg shells they have just left, running over them in the same swift way that they
were anticipating a crowd of 10,000
Fair Board secretary, said a total conservative. Ske Tonight will be American Legion night, with music by the drum and bugle corps of the Twelfth District Legion and Auxiliary and the Tillman Harpole Post, and the Franklin Township High School Orchestra. Pie-eating contests also are on the opening schedule.
Exhibits Are Doubled
Mr. Roberts reports that: the number of exhibitors is double that of last year, and that the number of concessions has increased by one-third. a The premium list has been increased $500 over 1938, and a flower show has been added to the list of features. John L. Coomler, Indianapolis, is chairman of the committee, and prizes will be offered in five classes of potted plants and 16 classes of cut flowers. Pony and mule races and oldfashioned singing will be features of the Wednesday program. Twelfth District Boy Scouts will hdve charge of Thursday night's gram and will give exhibitions of scout craft. Horse judging is scheduled for 2 p. m. Thursday, and the judging of cattle for 10 a. m. Friday. Horsepulling contests, light class, will be at 10 a. m. and the heavyweight class at 2 p. m. Saturday. H. G. Brandt, Indianapolis, R. R. 10,.is chairman. : : C. S. Rhode Will Judge
Prof. C. S. Rhode of the University of Illinois will judge the Central Indiana Regional Jersey and Guernsey Shows, open to exhibitors from Marion, Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Shelby, Rush, Decatur, Bartholomew, Morgan, Hendricks and Tipton Counties. William E. Andrews is superintendent of. the regional jersey show, and Emerson Mithofer and George Whitesides, superintendents of the guernsey show. i Paul Moffett, Indianapolis, is chairman of the horse show, and H. A. Reasner, Indianapolis R. R. 10, is director of the rabbit breed-ers-and poultry and egg shows. F. J. Fuller, Blacklick, O., will judge the rabbit show, and W. W. Zike, Morristown, the poultry. G5
Four cups are being
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Expect 10,000 at County Fair’s Opening Tonigh
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Marion County Fair officials, exhibitors and concessionaires today
for the formal opening at 8 p. m.
of the County’s eighth and largest fair at New Bethel. The fair will continue through Saturday night, and Harry Roberts,
attendance estimate of 100,000 was
4-H displays and poultry exhibits. Mrs. Della Willsey, Indianapolis R. R. 9, is chairman of the com-
displays. In addition to shows and exhibits, Fair Grounds attractiofis will include games and rides.
4 LOCAL FIREMEN TO ATTEND SESSION
Four Indianspiis firemen are to represent Indianapolis at the 23d annual convention of the Indiana Firemen'’s - Association Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at’ Evansville. Delegates from Indianapolis will be Assistant Chief Roscoe McKinney, Assistant Chief Harry Fulmer, Capt. Michael Hyland, legislative committee head, and Fred Horton, secretary of the pension fund.
during the 1939 session of the Legislature. Officials of the organization said they backed the Fireworks bill that has banned the use of the explosives by the general public. Plans for a state safety and preventive program will be discussed at the meeting. The Association represents 5000 firemen in the state. Sens
STATES TO GET U. S. AID IN HEALTH FIGHT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U, P).— Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service, announced today that $4,379,250 will be allotted to the states for venereal disease control programs during the next 12 months. : 3 oh The Federal allotment, which represents 86 per cent of the $5,000,000 appropriated for control of venereal diseases under the La Follette-Bul-winkle Act, is the largest yet granted for that purpose. The remaining $620,750 will be used by the Health
offered for
field demonstrations,
mittee for quilts and fancy work]
will use later to skim over the clods of a plowed field. Quail are not so easy to care for in the brooder houses. When
they are very young they require
lettuce chopped extraordinarily fine. After~a few more days they are fine big quail and can eat celery, also chopped very fine. And just before they are released they get chopped celery-cabbage. They’ also get grain foods, of course, and by the time they are released they have a good idea of what they should and. shouldn't
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Pheasant Record
“How the project has grown: Year Birds Chicks Eggs 1930 432 None
1931 8,000 None 1932 ..... 7,387 None 3,975 1933 ..... 14,502 None 13,845 1934 (Figures unavailable) 1935 ..... 16,269 None 44,690 1936 ..... 22,732 None: 52,102 1937 ..... 16,100 None 53,057
1938 ..... 22,665 11,858 103,943 1939 42,517 46.200 60,000
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UAIL won’t bring up their
¢hildren in captivity so it
was necessary when the Department started the liberating project to find a substitute for quail parents. |
. At first the substitute was
brooding hens. In those days the Department searched the entire state for brooding hens, which were drafted into service as fos-
- ter parents.
This was not satisfactory, through no fault of the hens’ dispositions: or instincts, but because the mortality rate among the quail and pheasant chicks was so high. There was no way, it seemed, to free all the hens from diseases which attacked the chicks. In those days only 16 per cent of the eggs distributed for hen rearing were liberated as birds. Today, with the electric brooders, the mortality rate is very low. It
_ has been only since the program
of rearing and liberating pheasants has been instituted that Indiana could afford an open season. on the birds in many years. And because: the program has been so successful the Department this year expectj to lengthen the season. : ‘As more and more conservation clubs build their electric brooders, fewer and fewer eggs
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f are distributed and more and more day-old chicks. ‘ Some of the 1939 figures are not completed, or not verified, due to a fiscal year arrangement that ends and begins right in the midst of the brooding season. .When the proper balance is found, production figures will be leveled off and. made more or less the same year-after year. Then the Department may turn its ate tention to the wild turkey again, although that ‘is doubtful. They are conformists and seem likely to remain so.
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How the ‘quail project . has 4 grown: ' Year . . .Birds Chicks Eggs 1932 ...... 431 None None 1933 ...... 2963 None None 1934 ..... (Figures unavailable) 1935 11,372 None 754 1936 20961 None 8,600 1937 32,419 None: 24,460 1938 32,267 27,585: 28,121 1939 50,685 56,250 9,000
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1—What is the name of the instrument used to measure humidity? 2—In what year was the capital ‘of the United States moved to Washington, D. C.? 3—What are the pigment primary colors? 4—Who was recently appointed : as U.S. Army Chief of Staff by President Roosevelt, to succeed Gen. Malin Craig? 5—What is the name of the . great vulture of the Andes? 6—From which country was the Gadsden Purchase made? T7—What is the correct pronun‘ciation of the word embryo? 2 =» =» 2
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